More than 60 spectacular specimens of monkeys, apes, lemurs, lorises and bushbabies will go on show at the National Museum of Scotland from 9 December. The taxidermy was specially commissioned for the exhibition and is the first to show primates behaving as if they were in the wild

From an Arctic expedition to working in a studio in the school of biology and environmental science at University College Dublin, Siobhan McDonald collaborates with researchers to broach subjects at the edges of current scientific knowledge